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yTales from the AboriginesW. E. Harney,
London:Robert Hale,1959Z4997751959selected work short story Indigenous story Abstract'Many Aborigines have recounted these tales to me and in the re-telling I have woven the camp-life and customs of the story-tellers into the tales. As an end piece to some of the stories I have put in some verse to explain-in their quaint way of expressing their English-many of their observations about our ways of life. In gathering these tales I experienced many pleasures and happy days amidst a very intelligent people, and I now take this opportunity of thanking them for the stories they so willingly narrated to me around the camp-fires in the Northern Territory of Australia.' (Source: Author's Note)London:Robert Hale,1959